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THE 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON  YORK 


[HE  HQIEY-IOIEY 
STOKIES 


—  AND—- 

from  Health 


By  Paul  Point, 
Orvice  Sisson  and  Albion  Qirard 

With  Valuable  Items  by  Charles  C.  Miller 


Thirty-three  Illustrations 
Price,  25  Cents 

"  If  the  reader  of  this  book  " 

See  last  paragraph  on  page  38 


use  this  Book 
as  the  Bees 
use  the  Flowers 


Eating  Honey 
Improves  Health 


Bat  its 
product 
and  imitate 
the  indus- 
try of  the 
bee. 


Get  more 
of  your 
money 
to  hunting 
honey  for 
your  meals 


THE 

HONEY-MONEY 
STORIES 

—BY— 

ORVICE   SISSON 

Of  the  Society  of  Economic  Research, 

PAUL  POINT 

Of  the  Chicago  Registration  League, 

ALBION  GIRARD 

Of  the  Accuracy  Frees  Bureau, 

CHARLES  C.  MILLER 

On  Honey  Information. 


Edited  by  EARL  M.  PRATT 

(Copyright  1905  by  GEORGE  W.  YORK) 


CHICAGO,  IW,. 

GEORGE  W.  YORK  &  CO. 

PUBLISHERS. 


Health 
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Why  spend 
money 
for  things 
that  will 
injure 
you? 

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The  peo- 
ple do  not 
eat  enough 
honey  for 
their  own 
irood. 


This  Book  is  not  on  money 
pure  honey  for  your  plate 


from  honey,  but  is  about 
and  money  for  your  purse. 


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T11K    IK) NEY '-MONEY   STORIES 


The  Gudgeonville  Bridge 


Wilmer  had  been  a  school  teacher,  but  was  now 
looking  for  something  different  in  the  way  of  oppor- 
tunity, and  the  trouble  was  he  didn't  know  what  he 
was  looking  for.  He  owned  several  acres  of  fine 
woods  or  timber  land,  near  a  deep  ravine  where 
there  was  a  tiig,  busy  tannery.  One  day  when  the 
clouds  over  his  hopefulness  were  the  thickest,  the  old 
tanner  met  him,  and  'said,  "Wilmer,  I  will  give  you  ten 
dollars  a  day  for  the  use  of  a  bridge  across  this  ravine. 
You  build  the  bridge  and  keep  it  in  repair,  and  I'll  be- 
gin paying  you  from  the  first  day  it  is  ready  to  use." 

This  was  the  unknown  something  that  Wilmer  had 
been  getting  ready  for. 

He  used  up  a  great  deal  of  the  timber  on  his  land, 
and  mortgaged  the  land,  and  had  done  everything  he 
could  to  finish  the  bridge,  but  it  was  not  quite  finished. 
He  needed  some  more  money,  and  he  didn't  know 
where  to  get  it.  One  thing  he  had  decided  not  to  do, 
and  that  was  to  ask  the  old  tanner  for  money  in  ad- 
vance. 

While  trying  to  figure  out  a  solution  to  his  perplex- 
ity, he  got  a  letter  asking  him  to  deliver  a  $25  lecture 
at  a  teachers'  institute  in  tb^  next  county.  This 
b'rought  a  good-sized  ray  of  hope  to  him,  and  the  next 
day  he  went  to  the  county  seat  of  his  own  locality  to 
do  a  little  business,  and  while  walking  by  the  front  of 
a  store  which  was  being  painted,  a  painter  accidentally 
spattered  up  his  clothes  in  a  ruinous  manner,  and  they 
were  the  clothes  he  intended  to  lecture  in,  and  he  had 


THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


The  Truck  Garden  Home  with  Bee- Veil  on  the  Man 


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HARVEY'S  WAY 

HE  EMPLOYED  from  three  to 
five  men  by  the  year  and  in- 
sisted on  each  man  saving  two- 
thirds  of  his  income.  They  were  given 
board,  washing,  and  $150  a  year.  Un- 
less they  saved  $100  a  year  Harvey 
would  not  employ  them.  Some  did  not 
like  his .  arbitrary  way  and  left  him  for 
liberty,  but  those  who  remained  five 
years  had  some  good  ideas  and  $500  in 
cash.  Then  Harvey  was  ready  to  help 
them  get  started  for  themselves. 


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IS! 


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*TlIE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


no  money  for  new  ones.  What  to  do  was  beyond  his 
imagination,  but  in  less  than  five  minutes  he  met  a 
young  man  who  was  full  of  enthusiasm  and  very  glad 
to  meet  him,  and  this  young  man  seemed  to  think  it 
was  a  big  joke  to  have  the  paint  on  Wilmer's  clothes. 
As  Wilmer  did  not  cheer  up  very  much  over  the 
young  man's  hilarity,  the  latter  got  down  to  serious 
thought,  and  said : 

"Now,  Wilmer,  I  have  been  wanting  to  see  you  for 
weeks.  You  may  have  forgotten  about  helping  me 
start  my  truck-garden  a  few  years  ago,  but  it  has 
been  quite  a  success,  and  my  health  is  ten  times  as 
good  as  it  was  at  that  time.  I  got  down  to  eating  plain 
food  and  using  a  little  honey  every  day.  The  work  in 
the  truck-garden  gave  me  good  exercise,  and  while  I 
have  some  money  ahead  to-day,  my  improved  health  is 
more  important  than  the  money.  I  wish  you  would 
tell  me  where  to  put  $200  at  4  per  cent  interest.  I 
have  it  with  me  now,  and  I  want  to  do  something  with 
it,  and  you  are  just  the  one  to  advise  me." 

Wilmer  asked  the  young  man  to  let  him  think  a  few 
minutes,  and  they  stood  there  by  the  curbstone  until 
Wilmer  invited  him  to  come  into  a  restaurant  and  have 
some  lunch.  There  he  told  him  the  story  of  the  bridge 
and  how  he  was  situated.  Then  he  offered  the  young 
man  5  per  cent  interest  for  the  money  for  six  months. 

The  young  man  replied,  "Wilmer,  I  am  willing  to 
give  you  the  money  for  nothing,  both  principal  and 
interest,  if  it's  of  any  use  to  you,  because  my  success 
to-day  is  due  to  your  kindness." 

Wilmer  insisted  on  the  5  per  cent  and  written  recog- 
nition of  the  loan.  New  clothes  were  purchased,  the 
lecture  was  a  success,  the  bridge  was  finished,  and  all 
the  debts  paid. 

Now  there  is  a  little  house  on  the  wood-lot,  and  no 
happier  home  in  the  world. 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


Hiving  a  Swarm  of  Bees 


PULL   FOR   PEACE 

WASTED  energy  is  an  enemy  of 
wealth.     Poor  tools  and  abused 
earnestness   make   trouble,   and 
trouble  is  also  made  by  dishonesty  be- 
fore   good   tools   and   unrespected  kind- 
ness.     Every   thinker  should   also  be  a 
worker  in  the  interest  of  real  wisdom  be- 
tween man  and  man.     Conditions  might 
be  better  for  everybody  on  earth. 


THE   HONEY- MONEY  STORIES 


Using  a  Horse-Food 


To  prove  to  you  that  I  am  not  the  only  one  in  the 
world  who  thinks  that  there  is  some  relation  between 
what  you  eat  and  your  business  ability  to  do  things,  let 
me  tell  you  the  story  of  a  man  who  had  been  watching 
for  a  food  to  add  to  his  bill  of  fare. 

When  he  read  that  some  horses  in  New  York  had 
been  improved  in  appetite  and  appearance  by  being  giv- 
en a  little  molasses  daily  with  t1ieir  grain,  he  jumped 
to  the  idea  because  he  remembered  ^ow  he  wanted  it 
on  his  bread  when  a  boy  and  his  mother  laughed  him 
out  of  it. 

Now  he  started  in  to  make  up  time,  anr1  had  two 
slices  of  bread  and  molasses  the  first  thins:  every  break- 
fast. It  was  rather  objectionable  to  some  members  of 
his  family,  and  when  warm  weather  came  his  zeal  let 
up  a  little,  but  just  as  he  was  thinking  about  a  vacation 
on  his  horse-food  he  was  interested  in  the  pure  food  law 
and  extracted  honey.  This  took  the  place  of  molasses 
and  pleased  the  group  at  the  table,  but  he  claims  that 
if  he  could  not  get  the  honey  he  would  not  be  without 
molasses. 


AN  87-year-old  lady  says  that  for 
years  for  a  breakfast  drink  she 
has  had  nothing  except  a  spoon- 
ful of  pure  extracted  honey  dissolved  in 
a  cup  of  hot  water. 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


FOOD   AND   EXERCISE 

THE   DAY   is   coming  when  every 
disease  will  be  cured  by  specially 
prepared  foods  and  exercises.  The 
foods    will    t)e    inviting   to   the   eye  and 
pleasant  to  the  taste,  but  man  will  never 
make  anything  superior  to  the  product 
of  the  honey-bee.     The  exercises  will  be 
mental  and  physical,  but  they  will  never 
be    superior   to   working   for   others,   to 
their  benefit  and  your  profit. 


Canadian  Experiment  Bee- Yard  at  Ottawa 


THE   HONEY-MONEY   STORIES 


Money  Mentally 


The  old  man  had  been  in  trouble  and  lost  everything 
except  the  refusal  of  some  property  out  in  the  country. 
He  had  to  go  on  crutches,  due  to  an  accident.  But  he 
had  a  head.  Advertising  agencies,  printers  and  other 
business  men  told  him  he  could  have  anything  he 
wanted,  and  pay  for  it  when  he  got  ready. 

The  old  man  started  in  anew.  He  fixed  up  a  flat  for 
a  home  and  office  combined.  With  credit  he  began,  and 
in  a  couple  years  he  had  a  prosperous  mail-order  busi- 
ness with  but  one  thing  to  sell.  It  was  worth  selling, 
and  gave  buyers  satisfaction ;  but  many  men  with  a 
bag  of  gold  to  start  with  would  have  failed  because  they 
would  not  know  how  to  manage  and  make  money.  He 
knew  how.  Nine  people  out  of  ten  know  how  to  man- 
age and  lose  money.  He  had  a  head  which  could  man- 
age other  people  in  a  way  to  give  them  a  living,  and 
leave  him  a  profit.  People  have  never  had  enough  re- 
spect for  heads  such  as  this  old  man's  crippled  body 
possessed. 

Credit  is  money,  and  what  is  money?  While  on  a 
street-car  I  heard  a  man  tell  another  man  this  about  a 
young  fellow  who  had  some  money :  "He  has  money, 
but  he  does  not  know  what  money  is — money  is  a 
lever." 


THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


Nestor  of  American  Bee-Keeping 


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OLD  BEE  MAN'S  WISDOM 


THE  REAL  food  value  of  honey  in 
milk  or  on  bread  and  crackers,  is 
worth  knowing.     If  you  are  not 
aware   of  it  make   some   tests.     If  you 
eat  too  much  you  may  injure  your  ap- 
petite   for    a    wonderfully    useful    food. 
You    can    secure   or   regain   an   appetite 
for  honey  by   using  a  very   little  of  it 
daily. 


IO  T11K    HONEY-MONEY   STORIES 


From  J.  B.  W. 


It  struck  me  that  the  following  from  "Success" 
might  interest  some  of  your  thinkers : 

CHEERFULNESS  is  POWER. 

Fate  itself  has  to  concede  a  great  many  things 
to  the  cheerful  man.  The  man  who  persistently  faces 
the  sun  so  that  all  shadows  fall  behind  him,  the  man 
who  keeps  his  machinery  well  lubricated  with  love  and 
good  cheer,  can  withstand  the  hard  jolts  and  disap- 
pointments of  life  infinitely  better  than  the  man  who 
always  looks  at  the  dark  side.  A  man  who  loves  shad- 
ows, who  dwells  forever  in  the  gloom — a  pessimistic 
man — has  very  little  power  in  the  world  as  compared 
with  a  bright,  sunny  soul. 

The  world  makes  way  for  the  cheerful  man ;  all 
doors  fly  open  to  him  who  radiates  sunshine.  He  does 
not  need  an  introduction ;  like  the  sunlight,  he  is  wel- 
come everywhere. 

A  cheerful  disposition  is  not  only  a  power,  it  is  also 
a  great  health  tonic.  A  depressed  mind  makes  the 
system  more  susceptible  to  disease ;  encourages  its 
development  because  it  kills  the  power  of  resistance.  A 
cheerful  soul  can  resist  disease,  and  it  is  well  known 
among  physicians  that  there  is  a  greater  chance  for  re- 
covery from  exhaustive  diseases  of  a  bright  sunny 
soul  than  of  a  gioomv,  despondent  one.  Cheerfulness 
is  health ;  melancholv  is  disease.  Gloom  and  depres- 
sion feed  disease  and  hasten  its  development. 

I  am  thankful  to  J.  B.  W.  for  sending  this  to  me. 
When  we  know  how  to  get  and  use  pure  milk  and 
honey,  good  wheat  and  corn  breads,  and  then  exercise 
wisely,  we  must  be  cheerful. 


THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


OIL  down    your    wants    until    you 
boil  up  your  energy  and  get  your 
income    in    advance    of    your    ex- 
penses. 

The  ability  to  do  hard  work  and  keep 
at  it  is  wealth  in  itself.  To  be  accurate 
and  follow  the  orders  of  those  who  pay 
for  the  work  is  a  source  of  executive 
skill.  To  know  how  to  work  is  a  trade 
a  profession  combined. 


Observation  Bee-Hive  Inside  of  a  Sitting-Room  Window 


12  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


A  Bee-Yard  in  the  Winter-Time 

The  Difference 


A  man  worked  over  thirty  years  on  a  machine  and 
withoujt  success.  A  practical  young  man  married  this 
man's  daughter  and  made  the  machine  a  money-maker. 
Why  and  how  ?  You  cannot  go  in  two  directions  at  the 
same  time.  You  could  not  take  hreakfast  in  Augusta, 
Maine,  and  supper  the  same  day  in  Sitka,  Alaska.  But 
the  inventor  could  go  up  into  theory  while  the  practi- 
cal son-in-law  could  go  down  into  supply  and  demand. 
The  inventor  could  breakfast  in  Maine  while  the  young 
man  could  supper  in  Alaska. 

Men  starve  their  purses  while  in  love  with  their 
theories,  and  men  starve  their  minds  while  in  love  with 
their  bursting  purses.  But  there  are  many  men  who 
think  and  love  theories,  and  also  make  money.  The 
latter  are  the  fortunate  people  of  all. 

Yet,  the  world  gains  great  things  by  those  who  are 
sacrificed  in  their  efforts.  That  zeal,  without  wisdom, 
which  is  adding  to  the  world's  wisdom  and  conven- 
iences and  wealth,  should  get  the  respect  which  it  does 
get  in  centuries  after  the  expensive  victory  is  won. 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


1.1 


A  deep  poem  for  your  eyes 


14  THE    HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


NO    MANUFACTURED    COMB 
HONEY 


IN  THESE  days  of  prevailing  adul- 
teration, when  so  often  "things  are 
not  what  they  seem,"  it  is  a  com- 
fort  to   know   that   strictly  pure   honey, 
both  extracted  and  comb,  can  still  be  had 
and    at    a    reasonable    price.      The    silly 
stories    seen    from    time    to   time   in   the 
papers  about  artificial  combs  being  filled 

with  glucose,  and  deftly  sealed  over  with 
a  hot  iron,  have  not  the  slightest  founda- 
tion in  fact.  For  years  there  has  been 
a  standing  offer  by  one  whose  financial 
responsibility  is  unquestioned,  of  $1,000 
for  a  single  pound  of  comb  honey  made 
without  the  intervention  of  bees.  The 
offer  remains  tintaken,  and  will  prob- 
ably always  remain  so,  for  the  highest 
art  of  man  can  never  compass  such  deli- 
cate workmanship  as  the  skill  of  the  bee 
accomplishes. 

With  extracted  honey  the  case  is  dif- 
ferent. When  you  see  in  the  grocery  a 
tumbler  of  liquid  honey  with  a  small 
piece  of  comb  honey  in  the  center,  you 
may  be  pretty  sure  the  liquid  honey  is 
not  honey  at  all,  but  glucose.  If  not 
familiar  enough  with  honey  to  detect 
it  by  the  taste,  your  only  safe  course  is 
to -buy  of  some  one  who  knows  as  to  its 
source  and  upon  whose  honesty  vou  can 
rely. 


1 6  THE   HONEY- MONEY  STORIES 


A  Piece  of  Rubber 


It  is  the  size  of  a  little  child's  fat  hand,  but  I  am  told 
that  the  inventor  who  made  it  worked  17  years  and 
spent  $30,000.00  on  his  experiments. 

He  may  never  make  much  money  out  of  it,  and  yet 
he  may  become  wealthy  from  the  sale  of  the  machine 
of  which  it  is  a  main  part. 

If  he  fails  he  will  be  called  by  some  a  fool.  If  he 
succeeds  these  same  people  will  call  him  a  genius. 

Do  such  seekers  after  new  ideas  work  for  years  for 
the  money  there  may  be  in  the  discovery  ?  There  must 
be  a  love  for  the  work  rather  than  a  love  for  the  wealth 
which  may  come  from  success,  though  a  hope  of  wealth 
or  glory  may  start  many  on  this  path. 

How  can  inventive  people  become  more  successful 
financially?  One  man  told  me  that  his  father  invented 
many  good  things,  any  one  of  which  would  have  made 
him  wealthy  if  marketed  correctly,  but  he  kept  all  of 
them  on  the  shelf  for  fear  of  getting  cheated,  and 
never  profited  by  his  originality. 

One  thinker  was  in  jail  for  debt  while  studying  out 
a  chemical  compound,  but  later  became  a  national  suc- 
cess. He  had  a  marketable  product  when  it  was 
ready,  and  he  put  all  his  time  on  it  when  he  once  got 
it  started. 

Yesterday  a  good  business  man  told  me  about  a 
man  who  had  a  good  article  but  he  got  rid  of  his  part- 
ners and  then  found  that  he  did  not  know  how  to  mar- 
ket his  own  good  article.  Sales  fell  to  a  small  figure. 


THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


In  the  Foothills  of  California 


CO-OPERATION 


MINES,  forests,  the  waters  and  the 
earth  are  the  foundations  of  all 
wealth,  but  the  man  who  invents 
a   machine   that  helps   the   workers  get 
twice   as   much     for  their  labor  is  cer- 
tainly   useful.      Then    the    person    who 
lengthens  the  life  of  the  inventor  for  the 
creation  of  more  useful  machinery  is  a 
helper. 


r  LOWERS  are  benefited  by  the  bees 
as  they  gather  honey  for  the  good 
of  man.    Some  money  makers  ben- 
efit   all    humanity    while    making    their 
money. 


1 8  THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

and  he  was  forced  to  hitch  up  with  a  man  that  knew 
how  to  put  things  on  the  market  and  keep  them  there. 
It  is  easy  to  find  good  things  to  push,  and  difficult 
to  find  men  who  can  successfully  push  them.  Why? 
Well,  to  market  an  article  requires  a  steady  energy 
and  ready  resourcefulness  few  people  possess.  You 
can  walk  ten  miles  in  ten  hours  but  can  you  run  ten 
miles  in  one  hour?  Competition  may  require  the  busi- 
ness man  to  think  ten  days  in  ten  minutes  or  to  work 
twenty  hours  a  day  for  a  month.  I  was  told  about 
a  wealthy  American  who  marketed  an  article  success- 
fully but  who  had  never  recovered  physically  from  two 
weeks  of  work  done  at  a  critical  period  in  his  business. 

Down  in  the  heart  of  Indiana  a  year  ago  I  sat  in 
the  office  of  an  energetic  and  resourceful  man  who 
had  forced  the  world  to  stop  and  think,  and  purchase 
his  goods.  As  he  finished  his  day's  work  and  turned 
to  me  he  said,  "This  work  is  something  fierce — these 
people  who  come  in  and  tell  me  how  to  do  things  make 
me  tired — they  know  about  as  much  about  it  as''- 
then  he  got  off  some  special  remarks  which  were  char- 
acteristic of  the  man. 

He  was  right,  and  he  was  wrong.  Outsiders  knew 
little  about  the  hard  work  he  had  to  do  to  make  his 
big  money,  but  as  great  men  as  he  have  been  ruined  by 
not  recognizing  the  telescopic  wisdom  in  the  sugges- 
tions of  some  caller  or  agent.  Everyone  needs  to  know 
more,  and  everyone  knows  something  useful.  A  bar- 
ber does  not  cut  his  own  hair. 


THE  HONEY-MONE^  STORIES 


B 


ETTER  be  useful  than  rich,  but 
never  forget  that  it  is  possible  to 
be  both. 


SOME  people  love  the  busy  hum  of 
factory  life  as  much  as  a  bee  en- 
joys gathering  honey.  The  scholar 
among  his  favorite  books  is  never  hap- 
pier than  some  mechanical  workers 
among  the  machinery.  Men  go  from 
farm  to  factory,  and  from  factory  to 
farm,  and  ^ome  think  most  of  the  oil 
and  iron  odors  of  the  shop,  but  city  peo- 
ple are  seeking  the  farms  more  and  more 
everv  vear. 


2O  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


A  Farmer's  Confession 


Several  years  ago  I  saw  a  prosperous  farmer  stand- 
ing- in  his  barn  door,  and  as  I  had  a  little  time  to  spare 
I  drove  up  to  try  to  find  out  why  he  was  prosperous. 
One  reason  for  my  curiosity  was  due  to  having  heard 
that  he  had  plowed  under  a  field  of  wheat  because  he 
was  ashamed  to  let  such  a  poor  crop  as  it  was  likely  to 
be,  be  seen  on  his  farm.  I  knew  that  other  farmers 
would  have  lacked  the  nerve  to  plow  under  such  a  crop. 
They  would  have  gone  on  caring  for  it,  though  they 
lost  money  by  doing  so. 

This  farmer  in  his  barn  door  had  some  answers  to 
my  direct  questions,  and  one  was  that  the  reason  why 
he  was  a  good  farmer,  or,  rather,  why  he  was  success- 
ful as  a  farmer,  was  because  his  father  was  a  good 
farmer,  one  of  the  best  that  he'd  ever  known. 

This  made  me  think  of  a  young  man  who  was  given 
a  farm  by  his  father,  who  was  a  good  farmer,  but  the 
son  was  not  able  to  pay  the  taxes,  and  soon  the  farm 
got  away  from  him.  The  good  farmer  in  the  barn  door 
said  he  had  read  many  things  in  the  papers  that 
had  helped  him,  and  one  was  that  it  paid  to  roll  the 
wheat  stubble  for  the  clover  crop,  while  the  clover  was 
a  few  inches  high.  This  was  an  entirely  new  idea  to 
him,  and  it  had  been  decidedly  worth  while  to  do. 

The  above  was  written  months  ago,  and  this  morn- 
ing I  read  that  this  farmer  had  been  in  charge  of  some 
railroad  lands  which  he  managed  so  successfully  that 
the  railroad  officials  had  invited  him  to  another  locality 
in  consultation  over  some  property  which  had  been  de- 
preciating in  value. 


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21 


GRANULATED    HONEY— TO    RE- 
LIQUEFY 


WHEN  honey  is  kept  for  any 
length  of  time  it  has  a  tendency 
to  change  from  its  clear  liquid 
condition,  and  becomes  granulated  or 
candied.  This  is  not  to  be  taken  as  any 
evidence  against  its  genuineness,  but 
rather  the  contrary.  Some  prefer  it  in 
the  candied  state,  but  the  majority  pre- 
fer it  liquid.  It  is  an  easy  matter  to  re- 
store it  to  its  former  liquid  condition. 
Simply  keep  it  in  hot  water  long  enough, 
but  not  too  hot.  If  heated  above  160 
degrees  there  is  danger  of  spoiling  the 
color  and  ruining  the  flavor.  Remember 
that  honey  contains  the  most  delicate  of 
all  flavors — that  of  the  flowers  from 
which  it  is  taken.  A  good  way  is  to 
set  the  vessel  containing  the  honey  inside 
another  vessel  containing  hot  water,  not 
allowing  the  bottom  of  the  one  to  rest 
directly  on  the  bottom  of  the  other,  but 
putting  a  bit  of  wood  or  something  of 
the  kind  between.  Let  it  stand  on  the 
stove,  but  do  not  let  the  water  boil.  It 
may  take  half  a  day  or  longer  to  melt 
the  honey.  If  the  honey  is  set  directly 
on  the  reservoir  of  a  cook-stove,  it  will 
be  all  right  in  a  few  days.  In  time  it 
will  granulate  again,  when  it  must  again 
be  melted. 


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Observation  Hive  Inside  of  Sitting- Room  Window 

Sawdust 


That  is  what  the  girls  called  him  because  he  kept 
telling  them  that  their  dolls  were  rilled  with  sawdust. 
Of  course  they  didn't  enjoy  his  ridicule.  If  you  have  a 
piano  and  some  one  comes  in  and  tears  it  to  pieces  to 
prove  to  you  that  it  is  veneered  and  not  solid  wood, 
your  love  for  that  person  grows  smaller. 

"Sawdust"  was  a  boy  born  to  grow  as  thoughtlessly 
as  a  tree,  and  he  was  not  born  mentally  until  about  25 
years  of  age.  His  parents  had  been  too  busy  to  think, 
and  when  he  was  a  few  years  old  he  went  to  live  with 
an  uncle  and  aunt  where  there  were  no  pets  and  no 
garden.  The  uncle  had  a  yoke  of  old  oxen  with  which 
he  did  his  farming.  The  nearest  neighbors  were  miles 
away.  To  many  it  would  seem  impossible  for  a  boy  to 


24  THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

be  as  ignorant  as  "Sawdust."  'One  day  his  aunt 
thought  enough  about  his  future  to  have  him  visit  his 
cousins,  two  girls  about  his  own  age. 

He  walked  the  15  miles  to  their  home  and  spent  a 
few  days  with  them.  About  all  he  did  was  to  make 
fun  of  the  girls  for  playing  with  sawdust-filled  dolls, 
and  they  were  thankful  when  his  visit  was  over  and 
he  went  back.  That  is  how  "Sawdust"  got  his  name. 
But  he  went  back  to  work  early  and  late — work  so 
hard  that  for  years  he  did  not  think  beyond  the  me- 
chanical circle  of  his  daily  duties. 

Again  he  visited  the  home  of  his  cousins.  This  time 
to  pay  their  father  some  money  due  him  from  the  uncle 
with  whom  the  boy  lived.  "Sawdust"  could  not  believe 
his  eyes.  He  had  not  thought  that  he  had  changed  un- 
til he  saw  the  girls  in  homes  near  their  old  home  and 
with  "dolls"  without  any  sawdust.  The  "dolls"  were 
full  of  life,  and  would  not  stand  any  ridiculing.  "Saw- 
dust" began  to  think.  The  real  little  boys  and  girls 
proved  that  he  had  been  asleep.  One  of  the  cousins 
had  an  observatory  hive  of  bees  in  her  sitting-room 
window  which  interested  "Sawdust''  so  much  that  he 
partly  forgot  his  embarrassment.  He  was  treated  to 
honey  for  the  first  time,  and  the  girl's  father  told  him 
that  "there  is  much  trouble  in  the  world  because  people 
have  too  much  or  too  little  money,  and  that  people  eat 
too  much  or  too  little  honey ;  if  you  eat  too  much  it 
will  be  some  time  before  you  want  any  more,  while  you 
should  have  it  on  your  table  at  least  once  every  day." 
"Sawdust"  graduated  from  his  nickname  during  this 
visit,  and  in  a  few  years  he  had  a  farm  with  horses, 
and  a  barn  with  pets  and  a  garden  with  beehives  back 
of  it. 

He  had  a  house  with  a  busy  little  crowd  in  it.  One 
of  the  crowd  was  a  little  girl  with  a  doll,  but  her  father 


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.-J 


THIS  is  a  picture  of  one  of  the  busi- 
est places  in  the  world.     It  is  a 
metropolitan   market  center.       It 
has  many  stories  of  honey  and  money. 
Men  fail  and  men  win  here.    It  requires 
good  common-sense  and  an   interest  in 
the  subject  to  win.     One  man  told  me 
that  he  got  to  his  place  early  and  thought 
of  nothing  but  his  business  during  the 
day. 


26 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


would  permit  no  one  to  mention  sawdust  to  her.  He 
always  had  a  heart,  but  it  took  him  a  long  time  to  find 
it  out.  To-day  he  is  one  of  the  most  considerate  men 
in  the  world.  He  is  trying  to  pay  the  debt  he  owes  the 
world — the  debt  he  contracted  when  he  was  a  cvnic. 


Tall-Growing  Sweet  Clover 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES  27 


DIFFERENT     KINDS     AND     FLA- 
VORS OF  HONEY 

MANY  people  think  ''honey  is 
honey"— all  just  alike;  but  this 
is  a  great  mistake.  Honey  may 
be  of  good,  heavy  'body — what  bee-keep- 
ers call  "well-ripened" — weighing  gen- 
erally twelve  pounds  to  the  gallon,  or 
it  may  be  quite  thin.  It  may  also  b'e 
granulated,  or  candied,  more  solid  than 
lard.  It  may  be  almost  as  colorless  as 
water,  and  it  may  be  as  black  as  the  dark- 
est molasses.  The  flavor  of  honey  varies 
according  to  the  flower  from  which  it  is 
obtained.  It  would  be  impossible  to  de- 
scribe in  words  the  flavors  of  the  differ- 
ent honeys.  You  may  easily  distinguish 
the  odor  of  a  rose  from  that  of  a  carna- 
tion, but  you  might  find  it  difficult  to  de- 
scribe them  in  words  so  that  a  novice 
smelling  them  for  the  first  time  could 
tell  which  was  which.  But  the  different 
flavors  in  honey  are  just  as  distinct  as 
the  odors  in  flowers.  Among  the  light- 
colored  honeys  are  white  clover,  linden 
(or  bass  wood)  sage,  sweet  clover,  alfal- 
fa, willow-herb,  etc.,  and  among  the 
darker  are  found  heartsease,  magnolia 
(or  poplar),  horse-mint,  buckwheat,  etc. 


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THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

^L^t^tx^t^L^t^tX 


Eucalyptus  Blossoms 


YOUR  TEETH  AND  HONEY 


I 


F  YOUR  teeth  hinder  you  from  eat- 
ing- honey,  get  your  teeth  fixed,  as 
it  will  be  by  far  the  cheapest  in  the 


end. 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES  2Q 


That's  An  Apple 


The  old  fire  insurance  agent  sat  on  the  wagon-mak- 
er's sawhorse.  He  was  a  bright  man  but  not  the  only 
jackknife  in  the  show-case.  Some  were  better,  some 
were  worse;  others  were'  just  like  him.  He  had  been 
jollying  the  mechanic's  boy  who  was  tinkering  at  the 
vise,  and  had  got  the  laugh  on  the  boy.  A  painter 
was  working  at  the  other  side  of  the  room  and  enjoy- 
ing the  fun. 

The  agent  got  up  and  went  to  the  bench,  picked  up 
an  apple  and  asked,  "What  is  that?" 

Before  any  one  could  answer  the  boy  jerked  out, 
"An  apple!" 

The  laugh  was  on  the  agent  who  was  struck  dumb. 
The  painter  said  that  the  boy  was  worth  saving.  The 
father  remarked  that  honey  and  salt  saved  him,  as  for 
many  years  the  croup  hung  around  the  house  like  a 
bat  in  the  night,  and  nothing  helped  until  some  one  put 
them  on  to  this  God-given  remedy. 

"How  did  you  use  it?"  asked  the  painter.    The  father 
replied,  "Mix  a  half  teaspoonful  each  of  honey  and  salt 
for  any  kind  of  a  croupy  cough  unless  due  to  "a  bron- 
chial cold  that  remains  on  all  day  and  night, 
latter  drink  hot  corn-meal  gruel  very  thin  with  or  with- 
out milk,  but  salted,  and  put  honey  on  the  ches 
warmer  and  tonic." 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


A  State  Fair  Honey  and  Beeswax  Exhibit 
(Lincoln  Monument  in  Beeswax) 


HONEY  ON  SUNDAY  NIGHT 


AN    ENERGETIC    man    tells    me 
that  nothing  suits  him  better,  on 
Sunday  evening,  just  before  retir- 
ing, than  a  bowl  of  milk  sweetened  with 
a  tablespoonful  of  pure  extracted  honey, 
and  bread  broken  into  it.     He  does  not 
eat  anything  from  2   to  9:30  p.   m.   on 
Sundays., 


THE   COLOR   and   taste   of  honey 
depend  on  what  flowers  the  bees 
gather  from.     Some  people  prefer 
the  dark  to  the  light  grades. 


THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


The  Beginner 


He  came  into  the  woods  with  a  bag  of  potatoes  and 
garden  seeds  on  his  back,  an  axe  in  one  hand,  a  gun 
in  the  other,  determination  in  his  muscles,  and  good 
judgment  in  his  head. 

Cutting  down  trees  in  a  way  to  have  them  fall  across 
one  another  for  burning,  some  land  was  cleared  and 
vegetables  started.  Fish  were  caught  and  game  was 
shot,  and  a  home  was  started  The  skins  of  wild  ani- 
mals were  traded  for  meal  and  salt,  and  step  by  step  the 
beginner  accumulated  tools,  grains,  clothing  and  build- 
ings. Some  claim  that  the  motion  of  the  human  hand 
is  the  source  of  wealth,  but  it  is  only  a  changer  of  one 
form  of  wealth  into  another  form. 

You  can  see  how  a  poor  man  could  walk  into  a  finan- 
cially panic-stricken  city,  where  thousands  of  workers 
were  idle,  and  by  a  willingness  to  do  whatever  his  hands 
found  to  do  with  all  his  might,  and  by  a  resourcefulness 
to  think  to  the  benefit  of  every  one,  he  could  create  a 
place  for  himself  and  enjoy  success  while  many  others 
might  be  buried  in  failure  on  account  of  ignorance  and 
inactivity. 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


CARE    OF    HONEY— WHERE    TO 
KEEP  IT 

THE  AVERAGE  housekeeper  will 
put  honey  in  the  cellar  for  safe- 
keeping-— about  the  worst  place 
possible.  Honey  readily  attracts  moist- 
ure, and  in  the  cellar  extracted  honey 
will  become  rhin,  and  in  time  may  sour; 
and  with  comb  honey  the  case  is  still 
worse,  for  the  appearance  as  well  as 
the  quality  is  changed.  The  beauti- 
ful white  surface  becomes .  watery  and 
darkened,  drops  of  water  ooze  through 
the  cappings,  and  weep  over  the  sur- 
face. Instead  of  keeping  honey  in 
a  place  moist  and  cool,  keep  it 
dry  and  warm,  even  hot.  It  will  not 
hurt  to  be  in  a  temperature  of  even  100 
degrees.  Where  salt  will  keep  dry  is 
a  good  place  for  honey.  Few  places  are 
better  than  the  kitchen  cupboard.  Up  in 
a  hot  garret  next  the  roof  is  a  good 
place,  and  if  it  has  had  enough  hot  days 
there  through  the  summer,  it  will  stand 
the  freezing  of  winter;  for  under  ordi- 
nary circumstances  freezing-  cracks  the 
combs,  and  hastens  granulation  or  can- 
dying. 


34  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

About  a  Farmer's  Boy  Who  Was  Born 
in  a  City  Flat 


You  could  see  that  he  was  a  farmer  through  and 
through,  and  when  he  was  old  enough  to  visit  his 
grandfather's  farm  he  was  in  his  element.  Winters  he 
lived  at  home  in  the  little  flat  in  the  big  city,  but  sum- 
mers he  managed  to  spend  among  the  horses  and  cows, 
chickens  and  bees,  and  in  a  big  orchard.  One  day  his 
grandmother  told  him  to  watch  the  bees  and  he  was 
able  to  help  her  catch  a  swarm  that  was  leaving  the  hive. 
For  this  she  gave  him  25  cents,  and  while  he  was  won- 
dering what  to  do  with  the  money  she  offered  to  sell  him 
a  fine  chicken,  and  let  him  earn  in  various  ways  food 
on  which  to  keep  it.  When  the  chicken  was  ready  to 
sell  he  had  earned  more  money  to  put  with  the  money 
that  he  got  for  it,  and  with  this  he  bought  a  little  pig. 

He  became  so  interested  in  rural  life,  and  his  health 
on  the  farm  was  so  much  better  than  in  the  flat  that 
he  lengthened  his  summer  year  by  year  until  he  was 
with  the  animals  the  greater  part  of  the  time. 

When  the  pig  was  ready  to  sell  he  had  not  only 
earned  money  for  its  food,  but  more  money  '  to 
go  with  that  received  from  the  sale  of  the  pig.  With 
this  he  purchased  a  calf.  He  continued  to  earn  money 
for  its  food  and  some  money  to  save.  When  he  sold 
the  calf  he  ran  in  debt  to  purchase  a  colt,  but  he  earned 
money  and  paid  the  debt ;  he  earned  money  and  paid 
for  the  feed,  and  he  earned  money  to  save.  After  sell- 
ing the  colt  he  purchased  a  piece  of  land,  making  a 
first  payment  on  it.  He  rented  a  part  of  the  land  and 
cultivated  the  remainder  himself. 

After  paying  for  the  land  he  built  a  small  barn  on 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


A  Woman  Bee-Keeper  and  Her  Bee- Yard 

HONEY    THE    MOST   DELICIOUS 
SAUCE 


NOT  ONLY  is  honey  the  most 
wholesome  of  all  sweets,  but  it 
is  the  most  delicious.  No  prepa- 
ration of  man  can  equal  the  delicately 
flavored  product  of  the  hive.  Millions 
of  flowers  are  brought  under  tribute,  pre- 
senting- their  tiny  cups  of  dainty  nectar 
to  be  gathered  by  the  busy  riflers ;  and 
when  they  have  brought  it  to  the  proper 
consistency,  and  stored  it  in  the  won- 
drously-wrought  waxen  cells,  and  sealed 
it  with  coverings  of  snowy  whiteness,  no 
more  tempting  dish  can  grace  the  table 
at  the  most  lavish  banquet;  and  yet  its 
cost  is  so  moderate  that  it  may  well  find 
its  place  on  the  tables  of  the  common 
people  every  day  in  the  week. 


36  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

it,  and  the  next  year  he  built  a  cottage,  and  rented  the 
farm.  By  this  time  he  was  working  in  the  city  win- 
ters, and  living-  with  the  family  on  his  farm  during 
the  summer. 

The  next  improvement  was  another  cottage,  and 
that  meant  a  wife  and  a  home.  Now  he  is  going  back 
and  forth,  on  his  farm  summers  and  in  the  city  win- 
ters, with  a  helper  on  the  farm  who  enjoys  living  there 
the  year,  round,  and  a  helper  in  the  city,  who  enjoys 
the  city  all  the  year.  It  is  a  good  thing  that  all  of  us 
do  not  think  alike.  Some  people  abhor  the  city,  and 
some  people  abhor  the  country. 

A  woman  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  said  that  her  remem- 
brance of  the  awful  barrenness  of  her  girlhood  life  in 
the  country  made  her  feel  that  she  never  wanted  to 
leave  the  city  for  a  single  day,  after  once  getting  into 
it.  While  a  young  man  in  Chicago,  with  a  natural 
desire  for  rural  freedom,  confessed  that  while  he  was 
rooming  near  the  rear  of  a  very  large,  low-priced  flat- 
building,  he  felt  that  every  day  in  the  city  was  prison- 
life  for  him,  and  the  only  way  that  he  could  endure  it 
was  to  get  out  in  the  suburbs  for  a  home,  and  limit  his 
city  life  to  working  hours. 

Some  people  work  in  the  city  in  order  to  have  their 
evenings  in  the  city,  for  the  entertainment  there  is  in 
the  bright  and  active  life.  There  are  two  school-teach- 
ers who  are  out  in  country  towns  during  the  winter, 
and  during  the  summer  they  are  living  in  a  city  flat, 
for  the  sake  of  the  educational  advantages  and  social 
opportunities. 

There  are  people  in  the  city  who  suffer  from  poor 
health  due  to  a  lack  of  exercise  and  too  rich  food,  while 
there  are  people  in  the  country  who  are  suffering  from 
too  much  exercise  and  a  monotonous  and  dry  diet.  It 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


37 


Where  Bees  Built  Their  Comb  on  a  Fence-Rail 


HONEY  CARAMELS 


ONE  CUP  extracted  honey  of  best 
flavor,  i  cup  granulated  sugar,  3 
tablespoonfuls  sweet  cream  or 
milk.  Boil  to  "soft  crack,"  or  until  it 
hardens  when  dropped  into  cold  water, 
but  not  too  brittle— just  so  it  will  form 
into  a  soft  ball  when  taken  in  the  fin- 
gers. Pour  into  a  greased  dish,  stirring 
in  a  teaspoonful  extract  of  vanilla  just 
before  taking  off.  Let  it  be  ^  or  ^ 
inch  deep  in  the  dish ;  and  as  it  cools,  cut 
in  squares  and  wrap  each  square  in 
paraffine  paper,  such  as  grocers  wrap 
butter  in.  To  make  chocolate-caramels, 
add  to  the  foregoing  I  tablespoonful 
melted  chocolate,  just  before  taking  off 
the  stove,  stirring  it  in  well.  For  choco- 
late-caramels it  is  not  so  important  that 
the  honey  be  of  best  quality. 


38  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

is  a  good  thing  for  both  classes  to  have  the  exchange 
of  places.  Many  a  city  man  would  be  blessed  by  a 
winter  in  the  woods  with  an  axe,  and  one  of  the  hap- 
piest of  men  was  a  well-to-do  farmer  who  spent  his 
winters  in  the  city  as  a  dealer  in  a  rural  product  which 
he  secured  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  farm. 

A  city  dentist  and  his  wife  after  working  together 
for  ten  years  purchased  a  little  farm,  and  while  getting 
some  supplies  for  it  in  the  city  one  of  them  said,  "We 
don't  want  to  see  the  city  again  for  five  years." 

Some  forethought  planning  will  enable  many  people 
to  get  more  out  of  life  .than  they're  getting  to-day.  In 
place  of  worrying  all  the  time  over  uncomfortable  con- 
ditions, think  a  few  minutes  a  day,  or  five  minutes  a 
week  even,  systematically,  and  whatever  is  being  done 
will  be  better  done,  and  whatever  you  want  to  do  is 
more  likely  to  come.  A  man  who  has  been  forced 
to  live  in  the  city  while  wanting  to  live  in  the  country, 
says  that  he  has  injured  his  work  and  postponed  better 
opportunities,  by  using  working  time  to  worry  over 
subjects  which  should  never  be  worried  over  at  any 
time,  and  which  should  be  thought  of  only  in  private 
time.  He  wishes  now  that  he  had  locked  these  subjects 
in  a  box  and  let  them  out  but  five  minutes  a  day  before 
breakfast,  for  deliberate  study.  He  thinks  that  many 
a  wasted  life  might  have  been  a  success,  had  the  per- 
son spent  eight  hours  a  day  doing  practical  work,  and 
five  minutes  a  day  on  'his  pet  sub'ject.  Five  minutes 
a  day  for  five  years  will  accomplish  more  than  the  aver- 
age life  accomplishes,  in  the  usual  unsystematic  way 
in  which  people  live. 

If  the  reader  of  this  book  will  spend  five  minutes  a 
week  writing  an  original  idea,  or  a  question,  or  a  short 
quotation  on  the  margins  and  blank  pages,  it  is  only  a 
question  of  time  when  this  rx>ok  will  become  of  more 


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39 


Hiving  a  Swarm  of  Bees 

COMB  AND  EXTRACTED  HONEY 


AT  THE  present  day  honey  is 
placed  on  the  market  in  two 
forms — in  the  comb,  and  ex- 
tracted. "Strained"  honey,  obtained  by 
mashing  or  melting  combs  containing 
bees,  pollen  and  honey  has  rightly  gone 
out  of  use.  Extracted  honey  is  simply 
honey  thrown  out  of  the  comb  in  a  ma- 
chine called  a  honey-extractor.  The 
combs  are  revolved  rapidly  in  a  cylinder, 
and  centrifugal  force  throws  out  the 
honey.  The  comb  remains  uninjured, 
and  is  returned  to  the  hive  to  be  refilled 
again  and  again.  For  this  reason  ex- 
tracted honey  is  usually  sold  at  a  less 
price  than  comb  honey,  because  each 
pound  of  comb  is  made  at  the  expense 
of  several  pounds  of  honey. 


40 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


value  to  the  reader  than  some  of  the  most  expensive 
books  in  the  world. 

A  boy  was  sent  by  his  father  on  an  errand  across  a 
ravine  through  which  a  creek  ran.  The  trip  was  one 
of  several  miles,  and,  when  returning,  the  boy  thought 
to  shorten  the  trip  he  would  go  through  a  half-mile  of 
shrubbery  and  swamp.  But  in  this  place  he  found  no 
paths,  and  wasted  as  much  time  as  he  expected  to 
gain.  When  he  reached  a  bank  from  which  he  could 
see  the  wanderings  he  had  made,  he  recognized  many 
mistakes  while  in  the  shrubbery  and  swamp.  He  might 
have  saved  the  time  he  expected  to  save  had  he 
known,  at  the  start,  what  he  knew  by  observation  from 
the  bank  after  the  trip. 

It  is  a  wise  man  who  is  able  to  make  good  use  even 
of  expensive  experiences,  and  it  is  a  man  of  great  wis- 
dom who  is  able  to  gather  and  profit  by  the  expensive 
experiences  of  others.  Use  the  margins  of  this  book. 


Where  the  bese  hustle  for  you 


THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


A  City  Roof  Bee-Farm 


IT  WOULD  be  greatly  for  the  health 
of  the  present  generation  if  honey 
could  be  at  least  partially  restored 
to  its  former  place  as  a  common  article 
of  diet.  The  almost  universal  craving 
for  sweets  of  some  kind  shows  a  real 
need  of  the  system  in  that  direction,  but 
the  excessive  use  of  sugar  brings  in  its 
train  a  long  list  of  ills.  Besides  the 
various  disorders  of  the  alimentary  canal, 
that  dread  scourge— Bright's  disease  of 
the  kidneys — is  credited  with  being  one 
of  the  results  of  sugar-eating.  When 
cane-sugar  is  taken  into  the  stomach,  it 
cannot  be  assimilated  until  first  changed 
by  digestion  into  grape-sugar.  Only  too 
often  the  overtaxed  stomach  fails  to 
properly  perform  this  digestion,  then 
comes  sour  stomach  and  various  dyspep- 
tic  phases. 


42  THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


About  Money 


In  the  first  century  A.  D.,  under  the  emperors  Augus- 
tus Caesar  and  Tiberius  in  Rome,  the  property  of  crimi- 
nals was  confiscated  and  converted  into  money,  which 
was  lent  free  of  interest  to  those  poor  who  could  offer 
security  for  twice  the  amount  they  wanted  to  borrow. 

It  was  in  the  second  century  after  Christ  that  the 
humane  custom  obtained  in  Rome  of  permitting  slaves 
to  deposit  extra  earnings  to  create  a  fund  for  the  final 
purchase  of  their  freedom. 

Legion  (Regimental)  savings  banks  were  also  pro- 
vided under  the  Roman  emperors  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  the  soldiers. 

Copper  was  the  first  metal  used  in  important  money 
transactions,  the  Roman  "as",  being  originally  a  pound 
of  copper,  just  as  the  modern  English  pound  sterling 
was  originally  a  pound  of  silver  in  the  time  of  William 
the  Conqueror  (in  the  nth  century),  although  today 
the  silver  pound  sterling  is  only  about  Y§  of  a  pound 
in  weight. 

The  word  "coinage"  comes  from  the  Latin  cuneus, 
a  wedge  or  die  with  which  to  stamp  the  metal. 

The  oldest  coins  have  a  stamp  on  but  one  side. 

Gold  arrow  heads,  gold  knives  and  swords,  gold  rings 
and  bracelets  and  golden  chains  were  made  long  before 
gold  was  used  as  money.  However,  gold  was  used  as 
money  in  China  as  early  as  2257  B.  C.,  but  was  not  in 
common  use,  that  is  to  say,  the  debtor  could  not  be 
compelled  to  pay  it. 

The  permanent  use  of  gold  as  legal  money  cannot  be 
traced  back  further  than  the  time  of  the  Emperor 
Julius  Caesar  in  Rome  in  the  first  century  B.  C. 

For  the  next  thirteen  hundred  years,  i.  e.,  until  the 


THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


44  THE  MONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

Roman  Empire  ended  with  the  fall  of  Constantinople 
in  1204  A.  D.,  no  prince  or  Pope,  or  other  potentate 
within  the  Roman  Empire  (which  meant  pretty  much 
all  of  the  civilized  world),  was  allowed  to  coin  any 
gold,  except  the  Roman  emperors. 

The  coinage  of  gold  was  reserved  as  a  sacred  prerog- 
ative by  the  emperors  of  Rome  as  chiefs  of  the  Roman 
state  and  High  Priests  of  the  Roman  religion. 

Money  was  sometimes  legally  debased.  The  Roman 
denarius,  for  instance,  was  first  coined  in  Rome  at  the 
rate  of  six  coins  out  of  an  ounce  of  silver ;  in  B.  C.  216 
seven  were  coined  out  of  an  ounce  of  silver;  in  45  A. 
D.,  under  Augustus  Caesar,  there  were  eight  to  the 
ounce;  under  Nero,  eight  and  one-half  to  the  ounce; 
under  Hadrian,  nine  to  the  ounce ;  under  Callus,  four- 
teen to  the  ounce,  and  by  the  year  475  A.  D.  every  bit 
of  silver  was  gone  and  the  denarius  was  made  entirely 
of  copper. 

The  Latin  name  for  money,  pecunia,  is  derived  from 
pecus,  a  flock,  and  it  is  probable  that  the  English  word 
"fee"  is  connected  etymologically  with  the  German 
word  Vieh,  meaning  cattle. 

Cattle  were  also  used  as  money  in  early  Colonial  days 
in  our  own  country.  We  find  a  law  passed  by  the 
Colony  of  Massachusetts  in  1658  ordering  that  no  man 
should  pay  taxes  in  lank  cattle.  At  this  time  tobacco 
was  used  as  money  in  Virginia. 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


The  Linden  or  Baeswood  Tree  and  the  Bees 
are  Friends 


YOU    HAVE    heard   that    fruit   is 
gold    in    the    morning,    silver    at 
noon  and  lead  at  night,  but  now 
let  me  tell  you  that  pure  honey  is  liquid 
diamonds  all  the  time,  and  the  pure  food 
laws  enable  you  to  secure  guaranteed  ex- 
tracted pure  honey  of  retailers. 


THE   HONEY-MONEY   STORIES 


How  Dillon  Did  Me  Up 


Let  me  tell  you  the  story  of  that  pair  of  pants  I 
tore  in  1874,  as  a  boy  is  possessed  of  about  400  times 
as  much  feeling  as  he  is  generally  credited  with  having. 

Once  upon  a  time,  in  those  days  when  I  was  study- 
ing between  the  lines  of  my  geography  how  to  corner 
two  men  with  three  upon  the  checkerboard,  I  needed 
a  pair  of  pants. 

I  knew  I  needed  them  and  I  became  so  positive  that 


THE  HONEY- MONEY  STORIES. 


47 


GIVE  CHILDREN  HONEY 

PROF.  COOK  says:  "We  all  know 
how  children  long  for  candy.  This 
longing  voices  a  need,  and  is  an- 
other evidence  of  the  necessity  of  sugar 
in  our  diet.  Children  should  be  given  all 
the  honey  at  each  meal-time  that  they 
will  eat.  It  is  safer,  will  largely  do  away 
with  the  inordinate  longing  for  candy 
and  other  sweets ;  and  in  lessening  the 
desire  will  doubtless  diminish  the  amount 
of  cane-sugar  eaten.  Then  if  cane-sugar 
does  work  mischief  with  health,  the  harm 
may  be  prevented." 

Ask  the  average  child  whether  he  will 
have  honey  alone  on  his  bread  or  butter 
alone,  and  almost  invariably  he  will 
promptly  answer,  "Honey."  Yet  seldom 
are  the  needs  or  the  tastes  of  the  child 
properly  consulted.  The  old  man  craves 
fat  meat;  the  child  loathes  it.  He  wants 
sweet,  not  fat.  He  delights  to  eat  honey ; 
it  is  a  wholesome  food  for  him,  and  is 
not  expensive.  Why  should  he  not  have 
it? 


48  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

they   were    produced   in  a   hurry    from    country-store 
cloth. 

I  don't  suppose  that  $10.00  would  have  purchased  in 
this  country,  at  that  time,  an  outfit  equal  in  value  to 
some  of  the  $5.00  combination  suits  for  boys,  now  sold 
everywhere,  but  honey  is  as  pure  to-day  as  in  the  days 
of  Samson. 

The  next  morning  on  my  way  to  that  geography 
lesson  I  fell.  I  don't  know  why  or  how,  but  when  I 
got  up  there  was  a  five-inch  opening  in  the  knee  of 
the  left  leg  of  those  pants. 

The  sky  grew  dark,  life  became  painful,  my  coun- 
tenance disturbed  the  dining-room  group  that  evening 
so  much  that  they  voted  the  cloth  no  good  and  that  I 
was  blameless. 

Those  pants  produced  such  a  desert  of  woe  that 
years  of  memory  on  clothing  are  blighted  all  around 
that  lamentable  date.  At  that  stage  of  American  his- 
tory a  suit  with  an  extra  pair  of  pants  was  as  undevel- 
oped as  an  international  silver  dollar. 

But  speaking  of  checkers  makes  me  think  of  Dil- 
lon. Dillon  had  just  one  rule  for  playing  checkers, 
and  that  was,  "Play  to  beat."  When  I  met  Dillon  I 
thought  I  knew  how  to  play  checkers.  After  beating 
my  mother  and  father  and  Erastus  Hathaway,  I  ran 
up  aganist  Mr.  B.  Powers,  the  painter.  It  took  me 
about  6  months  to  conquer  Mr.  Powers,  and  it  was  a 
dozen  years  after  that  I  met  Dillon,  and  I  was  never 
able  to  beat  him  though  a  book  was  purchased  on 
checkers  and  how  to  play  the  game.  Still  Dillon 
would  let  me  have  about  one  game  in  twenty  just  to 
encourage  me.  The  embarrassing  part  of  the  whole 
experience  consisted  in  the  fact  that  Dillon  was  over 
ninety  years  old,  and  continued  to  play  his  rule  to  beat 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


49 


for  years  after  that.     He  was  in  his  one-hundredth 
year  when  he  said  good-b'ye  to  the  visible  world. 

Another  uncomfortable  part  of  the  experience  with 
the  board  between  us  was  that  I  got  a  rubber  manu- 
facturer to  sit  beside  me  and  try  to  help  me  out,  but 
together  we  were  not  able  to  corner  Dillon  when  he 
really  wanted  to  get  out  of  a  close  place.  I  never 
thought  any  the  less  of  him  for  his  beating  me  so  se- 
verely, because  he  was  one  of  the  youngest  and  most 
cheerful  of  elderly  men. 

Had  I  known  how  to  use  milk,  honey,  meat  and 
cereals,  and  exercise  systematically,  I  might  have  had 
a  clearer  head.  In  those  days  I  swallowed  a  great  deal 
of  foolish  food.  Dillon  was  a  careful  and  small  eater. 
He  always  quit  when  he  had  enough. 


The  blossoms  have  added  beauty  in  the  promise  of  fruit 


5O  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


History  of  a  Boy's  Cane 


"Mr.  James,  you  know  that  cane  yon  let  father  have 
• — well,  it  is  a  little  short  for  him  now,  and  you  said 
you  wanted  it  back  when  he  was  through  with  it — do 
you  wish  to  take  it  with  you  now?" 

I  am  "Mr.  James,"  and  Mrs.  Hart,  who  asked  me 
this  question,  lived  with  her  father.  The  old  gentle- 
man had  just  enjoyed  his  ninety-eighth  birthday,  and 
I  had  called  to  have  a  few  minutes'  chat  with  him. 
A  few  years  before  my  wife  and  I  had  rented  Mrs. 
Hart's  front  parlor  for  the  winter. 

This  man  had  an  atmosphere  of  hearty  good  cheer, 
and  I  have  often  gone  out  of  my  way  to  visit  a  little 
while  with  him.  It  was  a  real  pleasure  to  me  to  let  him 
take  the  heavy  cane  I  had  used  when  a  boy,  because  I 
enjoyed  pleasing  the  old  gentleman,  and  because  I  had 
longed  to  have  that  cane  give  some  elderly  man  real 
enjoyment. 

It  was  a  wholesome  looking  article.  My  father 
made  it  for  me  during  the  Philadelphia  centennial, 
while  I  was  walking  with  crutches  in  a  little  town  hun- 
dreds of  miles  away  from  the  great  show  of  the  na- 
tions. 

It  is  one  kind  of  imprisonment  for  a  boy  to  walk  with 
a  cane,  but  it  is  also  one  kind  of  liberty  for  a  boy  to 
hang  up  his  crutches  and  be  able  to  walk  with  a  cane. 
The  compensations  of  nature  enable  us  to  get  pleasure 
where  it  would  seem  at  first  glance  there  could  be 
nothing  but  sorrow. 

The  Osage  orange  fences  grew  near  us,  and  good 
material  for  canes  could  be  had  with  little  effort.  Ex- 
cept when  land  is  useless,  a  neglected  Osage  orange 


THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES  5! 


Honey  Eaters 

fence  is  used  only  for  canes.  It  is  good  for  little  canes 
and  big  ones.  The  polished  knots  can  be  made  as 
bright  as  birds'  eyes. 

I  had  a  great  variety  of  walking  sticks  and  made 
them  to  give  away  or  to  sell.  One  succeeds  in  making 
a  success  of  the  work  he  thoroughly  understands.  I 
was  not  thorough  in  the  cane  business  because  while 
I  knew  how  to  make  them  I  lacked  commercial  infor- 
mation necessary  to  produce  sales.  Had  I  known  a 
boy  in  the  city,  some  boy  with  business  sense,  I  could 
have  sent  him  canes,  he  could  have  sold  them  and  we 
might  have  grown  an  industry  that  would  support 
both  of  us. 

Had  my  parents  realized  the  food  force  in  a  very 
thin  coat  of  pure  honey  on  a  slice  of  good  bread  and 
butter,  I  might  never  have  been  forced  to  use 
crutches  and  canes. 

The  real  reason  for  this  record  is  one  of  regret.  One 
day  while  I  was  using  the  cane  I  came  home  from 
school  and  found  my  grandfather  had  come  for  a  visit. 
He  was  the  only  one  of  my  grandparents  living,  and 
we  thought  more  of  each  other  than  I  then  realized. 


52  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

During  the  last  nearly  score  of  years  I  have  seen  my- 
self many  times  as  I  stood  in  the  kitchen  door  and  re- 
fused to  give  or  sell  him  that  cane. 

He  admired  it  very  much.  It  was  better  propor- 
tioned for  him  than  for  me,  and  I  have  wished  more 
times  than  I  am  years  old  that  I  had  given  it  to  him. 
He  teased  me  to  sell  it  to  him  and  I  refused  several 
times,  insisting  on  keeping  it. 

It  is  a  mystery  to  me  why  such  discords  are  possible 
in  this  world.  I  never  enjoyed  that  cane  a  particle 
after  grandfather  left.  He  gave  me  a  dollar  and  said 
good-bye,  arid  I  never  thought  for  a  moment  of  giving 
him  the  cane. 

A  few  months  later  my  father  and  I  attended  his 
funeral  and  since  then  I  have  had  a  love  for  elderly 
men.  It  may  be  that  my  selfishness  over  the  cane  has 
been  a  blessing  to  others  by  the  reaction  of  my  emo- 
tions. I  am  forced,  by  my  lack  of  wisdom  in  the  past, 
to  study  the  comfort  and  pleasure  of  elderly  men.  It 
may  be  that  my  grandfather  never  cared  as  much  for 
that  cane  as  I  thought  he  did,  and  that  Prodivence  per 
mitted  me  to  be  painfully  selfish  for  a  moment  in  order 
that  I  might  be  more  thoughtful  ever  after. 

Some  time  ago  a  man  wrote  that  he  now  wished  he 
had  spent  less  time  in  his  "den"  under  the  stairs  trying 
to  be  a  modern  Shakespeare,  and  more  time  getting 
acquainted  with  his  father  and  mother,  sisters  and 
brothers. 

Since  I  have  learned  more  about  the  hearts  of  others 
I  am  able  to  recognize  the  lost  opportunities. 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


Two  Heads 


One  worker  met  another  and  exclaimed,  "If  it  hadn't 
been  for  you  I  never  could  have  landed  that  man." 

The  reply  was,  "Well,  I  couldn't  have  done  the 
work  you  did." 

The  first  speaker  had  a  b'ig  stomach  and  jjreat  force. 
The  other  worker  has  more  brain  than  digestive  capac- 
ity. 

The  latter  is  visionarv,  theoretical,  analytical,  but  he 


54  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

studied  the  man  in  trouble  and  suggested  a  field  for  the 
man  of  force  to  push  the  man  of  trouble  into,  to  help 
him. 

The  man  of  thought  invented  relief,  but  it  is  doubt- 
ful if  he  could  have  carried  out  his  invention  alone. 

The  question  of  thought,  flesh  and  push  are  con- 
tinually forcing  themselves  in  front  of  our  daily  work. 

A  man  thirty-five  years  old  confessed  that  he  had 
never  studied  to  see  what  foods  made  him  energetic  or 
lazy.  Later  he  announced  that  he  had  learned  that  his 
condition  depended  to  a  great  extent  upon  what  he 
ate.  Few  people  know  about  the  great  food  value  to 
be  found  in  pure  honey. 

Many  men  who  ask  for  help  could  help  themselves 
were  they  to  eat  and  think  in  a  way  to  grow  backbone. 

The  physical  intellect  is  unconsciously  popular  while 
the  mental  intellect  is  an  entertainer  at  a  distance  and 
studiously  conscious. 

Modern  improvements  are  not  only,  good  for  the 
body,  but  they  improve  the  brain  by  increasing  mem- 
ory, accuracy  and  carefulness. 

As  a  rule,  hearty  eaters  are  very  fleshy.  Some  very 
fleshy  people  are  small  eaters.  Occasionally  a  very 
thin  person  will  consume  an  almost  unlimited  amount 
of  food. 

People  with  even  flesh  and  energy  are  happy,  but 
careful  and  temperate  at  their  meals.  Extra  flesh  does 
not  always  indicate  extra  strength. 

A  young  man  left  home  looking  poor  in  the  face, 
but  weighing  a  hundred  and  sixty  pounds.  He  re- 
turned after  a  few  months  at  school  with  a  very  fleshy 
face  but  had  lost  ten  pounds  in  weight. 

Muscle  is  heavier  than  fat,  and  hard  muscle  than 
soft.  Eating  too  much  reduces  strength  and  in  some 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


55 


cases  lessens  natural  flesh.  Extra  flesh  hinders  phys- 
ical harmony  but  a  very  heavy  man  often  develops  a 
good  deal  of  muscle  in  handling  himself. 

Those  who  lack  the  normal  amount  of  flesh  are  able 
to  improve  themselves  by  a  close  study  of  foods,  eat- 
ing, exercise,  and  mental  occupation. 


Honey  eaters  on  a  vacatiou 


56  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


Mental  Occupation 


At  thirty-five  he  had  money  and  honors  but  lost 
them.  For  twenty  years  he  lived  a  very  simple  and 
wandering-  or  inactive  life.  During  the  last  five  years 
he  has  been  picking  up  and  now  has  $25,000  with  a 
good  position  and  an  income  of  several  thousand  a 
year.  A  few  days  ago  I  called  upon  him.  He  has  an 
unsually  comfortable  office.  He  had  been  reading 
how  successful  men  eat  and  he  told  me  that  they  were 
reported  to  eat  anything  they  came  across,  not  paying 
any  attention  to  their  stomach,  but  all  of  them  were 
busy  at  some  kind  of  work. 

His  observaion  had  been  that  when  a  man  stopped 
work  he  soon  went  to  pieces ;  that  systematic  thought 
and  exercise  were  necessary  for  continued  health. 

A  mechanic,  who  has  a  little  shop  he  has  run  for 
many  years,  is  sometimes  tempted  to  close  it  because 
it  pays  him  so  little.  My  advice  to  him  has  always 
been  that  he  could  afford  to  run  it  for  his  health. 
Were  he  to  stop  his  work  he  would  lose  his  directive 
power  and  then  his  energy.  He  cannot  do  the  heavy 
work  he  did  thirty  years  ago,  but  at  sixty-seven  he  is 
in  better  health  than  he  was  at  forty-five. 

I  have  often  thought  of  the  story  of  the  butcher 
who  had  made  sufficient  money  upon  which  to  retire. 
He  sold  his  shop  and  soon  became  miserable.  His 
wife  missed  him  day  by  day  and  became  suspicious. 
Upon  investigation  she  discovered  that  he  was  work- 
ing for  another  butcher  in  a  nearby  town. 

Would  you  live  better  and  longer — then  push  some 
useful  work  as  long  as  you  live,  and  use  honey. 


THE  HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 


The  trees  and  the  bees  are  our  true  friends 

The  Old  "Oil  Slinger"  Machine 


More  than  half  of  my  life  ago  the  cashier  of  a  bank 
tapped  on  the  window  as  I  was  passing  and  motioned 
me  in.  He  was  a  stockholder  in  a  factory  and  offered 
me  a  place  I  had  been  seeking.  That  was  Thursday 
afternoon  and  the  last  day  of  high  school  for  me.  The 
next  morning  at  seven  o'clock  I  stood  by  a  big  chuck 
as  one  of  seventy  workers.  My  clothing  was  not  suit- 
able for  any  machine,  and  the  chuck-machine  was  the 
worst  one  on  clothing.  The  boys  smiled  and  predict^1 
a  change  in  my  appearance  very  soon. 

My  work  was  to  knurl  the  head  of  the  long  screw 
which  moves  the  jaw  of  a  monkey-wrench.  In  those 
days  the  chuck  had  to  be  stopped  and  started  for  each 
screw;  as  it  started  up  the  oil  began  to  fly,  and  the 


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faster  the  chuck  revolved  the  greater  the  penetrating 
power  of  the  oil  when  it  hit  me.  In  order  to  do  the 
work  I  had  to  get  in  the  way  of  the  oil ;  1  did  the 
work,  but  traced  the  oil  from  my  clothing  to  the  chuck 
and  the  screw  which  came  to  me  loaded  with  it. 

The  oil  was  secured  in  the  thread-cutting  machine 
where  a  steady  stream  ran  on  the  die ;  some  would 
have  seen  all  this  at  first  glance  without  thinking,  but 
I  did  not ;  I  even  studied  the  bearings  as  the  source 
of  the  trouble,  before  finding  it  on  the  screws.  When 
1  did  find  the  place  of  the  trouble  I  put  a  bunch  of 
waste  there  and  laid  the  screws  on  it  before  putting 
them  in  the  chuck ;  the  waste  drew  the  oil  off  and  the 
machine  lost  its  name.  The  machine  lost  its  name 
because  I  was  dissatisfied  with  conditions,  began  trac- 
ing the  trouble,  and  found  a  remedy. 

When  a  former  workman  at  that  chuck  visited  the 
factory  and  asked  where  the  oil  had  gone  to,  on  being 
told  the  plan  he  opened  his  eyes  and  said  nothing.  He 
may  have  been  thinking  about  the  amount  of  oil  he 
had  taken  home  on  his  clothing. 

There  are  both  big  and  little  opportunities  in  every 


Old  Friends 


THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES  59 

shop  and  factory,  in  homes  and  on  the  farm,  for  better 
methods  and  originality,  mutually  useful  to  em- 
ployer and  employe. 


The  Oil  of  Life 


When  a  person  discovers  he  has  a  negative  manner 
that  hinders  his  social  life  how  is  he  to  revise  him- 
self? 

The  magnetic  or  positive  nature  boils  over  with 
attractive  agreeableness  without  being  conscious  of 
anything  but  joy  or  enthusiasm. 

People  collect  around  the  person  who  is  overflowing 
with  goodwill  and  natural  happiness. 

The  oil  of  life  is  an  abundance  of  life  itself.  As  re- 
serve forces  diminish  there  is  a  dryness  of  manner 
which  produces  negativeness. 

It  is  a  piling  up  of  reserve  force  that  produces  pos- 
itiveness  and  popularity.  A  lack  of  inherited  energy 
hinders,  but  a  knowledge  of  self  and  the  application  of 
useful  truths  compensate. 

By  continued  study  of  the  things  that  depress  and 
the  things  that  exalt,  one  is  able  to  see  the  way  to  pos- 
itiveness  by  accumulated  strength. 

A  little  heating  plant  trying  to  warm  a  big  space 
is  going  to  squander  coal,  soon  use  up  itself,  anc 
ways  be  unsatisfactory. 

Ventilation  is  to  the  home  or  office  what  circulate 
of  the  blood  is  to  the  individual. 

Good  goods  cost  money,  but  poor  goods  cost 
money,  and  a  great  deal  of  trouble  also. 

Five  dollars  for  continued  health  ,s  a  better  mves 
ment  than  fifty  dollars  for  sickness. 

Every  family  in  the  world  deserves  a  healthy,  c 


60  THE   HONEY-MONEY  STORIES 

modious  home  and  wisdom  to  keep  it  in  ideal  condi- 
tion. 

Good  work,  good  homes,  good  health,  but  a  neg- 
lected leak  will  soak  your  pocketbook  and  hinder 
your  sleep. 

The  best  bargain  is  getting  something  which  must 
be  done,  well  done. 

Plucky  investigations  make  lucky  discoveries. 


Sickness  and  Youth 


All  but  health !  Friends,  money,  schooling,  oppor- 
tunity, yet  discouraged  and  a  sufferer. 

The  young  person  with  poor  health  has  the  sym- 
pathy of  the  writer  because  twenty  years  ago  he  was 
in  the  same  condition. 

There  is  an  age  in  one's  growth  where  depression 
of  life's  forces  puts  one  beyond  the  influence  of  drugs, 
travel,  recreation,  and  the  help  of  friends.  Right  here 
is  the  place  to  investigate  foods  and  exercises. 

Should  a  little  strength  be  gathered  and  hope  return, 
unconscious  carelessness  wastes  the  strength  and  scat- 
ters the  hope,  till  time  comes  when  this  temporary  im- 
provement has  been  secured  and  lost  so  many  times, 
it  is  looked  upon  with  doubt  whenever  it  returns. 

How  to  manage  self  is  an  ever  important  subject, 
but  how  to  use  one's  strength,  when  it  is  like  the  last 
flickering  match  in  the  damp  forest,  is  the  subject  next 
to  preparation  for  eternity. 

The  encouraging  and  educating  of  a  young  person 
with  continued  poor  health  is  a  department  in  personal 
intelligence.  How  to  think  in  time  to  save  strength  is 
mental  preventive  medicine.  How  to  grow  a  substan- 
tial enthusiasm  that  will  not  be  displaced  by  any  com- 
mon emotion  or  temptation,  is  a  study  in  self-control. 


The  Bee-Keeper's  Lullaby. 


EUGENE  SECOR. 


GEOHOE  W.  Y..KK. 


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They'll  bring  the  sun  -  shine  home  in  drops,  Bye,  ba  -  by,  bye! 
They  nev  -  er  fret,  they  nev  -  er  weep,  Bye,  ba  -  by,  bye! 
And  go  a  -  mong  the  flow'rs  to  play,  Bye,  ba  -  by,  byei 


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And  some  they'll  put    in   wax -cups  neat  Just  for  their  era-died  ones    to   eat; 
They    lie      as     still   at    sun  -  ny   noon   As  stars  are  still  a-round  the  moon; 
And     ba  -  by    mine  may  have    a     run  Sometime,and  chase  them,  just  for  fun; 


And  some  they'll  keep  for  ba  -  by,  sweet,  Bye, 
They  nev  -  er  hear  their  mam  -  ma  croon,  "Bye, 
But  now  lie  still  and  sleep,  sweet  one,  Bye, 


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The  Hum  of  the  Bees  in  the  Apple=Tree  Bloom 


HON.  EUGENE  SECOR. 


Dr.   C.   C. 


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2.  The    cur  -  tain    is  lift  -  ed  which  sep  -  a-rates  me  From  the  hills  of  the  charm  'd  longa- 

3.  In  the  May-time  of  life,  when  the  spir  -  it      is  free,     O     how  near  is  the  Heaven    of 


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The  phan  -  torn  of  hap  -  py  and  in  -  no  -  cent  days,  Like  a 
I  stroll  once  a  -  gain  o'er  the  pas  -  tures  and  fields,  And  I 
It  li  -  eth  just  o  -  ver  the  wall  by  the  tree  Where  the 


balm  to  my  spir  -  it  is  lent; 
run  in  the  woods  to  and  fro. 
sum  -  mer-kist  ap  -  pies  are  best; 


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And     there     in     the  spring-time,   with 


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sol    -  ac  -  ing  dream  Of    the      orchard's  sweet,  budding  per  -  fume,        And       I 
sweet-scent  -  ed  grass  Vies  with     Ar  -    a  -  by's  choic-est  per  -  fume  —          A  - 
prom  -  ise       of  fruit,    The          white-sheet  -  ed     tree  lends  per  -  fume  To 


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hear  soothing  strains  in  the  trees    o  -  ver  head— 'Tis  the  hum   of  the  bees  'mongthe  bloom, 
bove  me  the  apple  trees  reach  the  blue  sky,  And  the  bees  rol  -  lie  free    in    the  bloom. 
tempt  the  youiig  bees  with  the  nectar  from  God  That's  concealed  in  its  life  -  giv-ing   bloom. 


CHORUS. 


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bees!     'Tis  a    mel  -  o  -  dy  sweet  to  my  soul^     For  it  brings  back  the  past,  and  its 

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Buckwheat  Cakes  and  Honey. 


EUGENE  SECOR. 


GEORGE  W.  YORK. 


1.  When  e'er    I     f  ass     a    scent  -  ed  field     Of  buckwheat,  late  in     summer, 

2.  I      laugh  at     Bo  -  reas  when     I  know  The  bees  have  stored  a  -  plen-ty 


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I     know  the  blos-soms    nee  -  tar  yield,  And  watch  each  la  -  den  "hummer,1 
To    sweet  -  en    all     that   come  and   go,    No  mat  -  ter    if    it's  twenty. 


9  9  • 


And  dream  of  what  the  Winter'll  bring  When  days  are  not     so    sun  -  ny, 
Old     Bos  -  sie  stands  knee  deep  in  straw,  I've      ev  -  'ry-thing   but     money — 


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When  bees  no  more  are      on  the  wing, 'Tis  buckwheat  cakes  and  honey.  Oh, 
A  sweet-heart  wife  whose  love  is  law,  And,  buckwheat  cakes  and  honey.  Oh, 


CHORUS.     Allegro. 


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Comb  Honey 
Not  Manufactured 


A  STATEMENT  has  been  going 
the  rounds  of  the  press  to  the 
effect  that  nearly  all  the  comb 
honey  on  the  market  is  manufactured  by 
a  "cute  machine,"  that  the  combs  are 
filled  with  glucose  and  capped  over  by 
a  mechanical  process.  The  facts  are. 
there  is  no  such  thing  as  manufactured 
comb  honey  anywhere  in  the  United 
States,  and  in  proof  of  this  the  publish- 
ers of  leading  bee  journals  of  undoubted 
responsibility  offer  one  thousand  dollars 
for  evidence  to  show  that  comb'  honey  is 
manufactured,  or  that  such  an  article  is 
for  sale  in  the  open  market.  Although 
this  offer  has  been  out  for  fifteen  years 
and  has  been  duplicated  by  other  re- 
sponsible persons  connected  with  the  in- 
dustry of  bee-keeping,  no  one  has  ever 
seen  fit  to  take  it  up. 

The  United  States  Department  of 
Agriculture  has  put  out  several  published 
statements  denying  the  existence  of 
manufactured  comb  honey,  and  the 
American  Grocer,  the  leading  trade  or- 
gan of  its  class,  assures  its  patrons  that 
all  the  comb  honey  on  the  market  is  abso- 
lutely the  product  of  the  bee, 


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